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June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

46 points by iamnothere ago | 5 comments

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Does anyone actually use Servo for anything?

Xirdus |root |parent |next [-]

Servo has always been a purely reasearch project with no intention to be ever used in production.

rpdillon |root |parent |previous [-]

Not really. There's a parallel thread on the front page where everybody's talking about writing a browser engine in anything other than Rust is irresponsible, and ridiculous. And yet, no one's rushing to pick up Servo. There seem to be some projects in GTK and QT to embed it, but other than a handful of pretty niche browsers, doesn't seem like there's much use.

Xirdus |root |parent |next [-]

Writing a new browser engine at all is irresponsible and ridiculous. Doing it in anything other than Rust just makes it slightly more irresponsible than it already is.

Rohansi |root |parent |previous [-]

Nobody is using it because it's not ready to be used. Compatibility with web standards is nowhere near the level of browsers people actually want to use.